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• January 15, 2026

  Wash. Judge Arrested For DUI Had Booze In Car, County Says​​​​​​​

  A Washington county urged a federal judge to toss a former state judge's lawsuit accusing sheriff's deputies of wrongfully stopping and arresting him on suspicion of DUI, arguing law enforcement had probable cause to detain him because he was slurring his words and had an open alcoholic beverage in his vehicle.

• January 15, 2026

  Trial 'No Longer Warranted' After Judge's Stelara Reversal

  The fate of insurer CareFirst's suit accusing Johnson & Johnson of using a merger and patent fraud to anticompetitively protect immunosuppressive drug Stelara from competition is in doubt after a Virginia federal judge reversed course and nixed key claims he had previously teed up for trial.

• January 15, 2026

  DOJ Backed US Operation To Capture Maduro, Memo Shows

  President Donald Trump's legal advisers at the U.S. Department of Justice concluded days before Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's capture by U.S. military that the operation "falls short of war in the constitutional sense," according to a memo recently made public.

• January 15, 2026

  Seattle Judge Fights Removal Rec Over Forged Parking Doc

  Washington state's high court seemed split Thursday on whether to bar a substitute county judge from the bench for using an official court stamp without permission in pursuit of a parking discount, with one justice remarking she "can't even imagine" behaving that way, while another suggested removal would be a disproportionate sanction.

• January 15, 2026

  Considerations In Building Guardrails For AI Use In Arbitration

  A recent California federal court case involving allegations of artificial intelligence ghostwriting an arbitration award, prior analogous practice on tribunal delegation, and emerging generative AI recommendations all support building a forward-looking framework for arbitration rules to minimize the risk of AI-based challenges, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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